Add an option to prune unwanted targets

pylib/gyp/__init__.py

Index: pylib/gyp/__init__.py
diff --git a/pylib/gyp/__init__.py b/pylib/gyp/__init__.py
index 61ce418723ad252cc8b62fc62f4d0943836efef9..0e79de9647873a84ec60d32a78000960b2c2bbec 100755
--- a/pylib/gyp/__init__.py
+++ b/pylib/gyp/__init__.py
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ def Load(build_files, format, default_variables={},
   # Process the input specific to this generator.
   result = gyp.input.Load(build_files, default_variables, includes[:],
                           depth, generator_input_info, check, circular_check,
-                          params['parallel'])
+                          params['parallel'], params['root_targets'])
   return [generator] + result
 
 def NameValueListToDict(name_value_list):
@@ -337,6 +337,10 @@ def gyp_main(args):
   parser.add_option('--toplevel-dir', dest='toplevel_dir', action='store',
                     default=None, metavar='DIR', type='path',
                     help='directory to use as the root of the source tree')
+  parser.add_option('-T', '--target', dest='root_targets', action='append',

[Mark Mentovai, 2013/10/01 18:37:06]

--target isn’t a descriptive enough long name. If this is about roots for
pruning, then the name should probably include at least one of those words.

+                    metavar='TARGET',
+                    help='Prune out targets that are not deep dependencies '

[Mark Mentovai, 2013/10/01 18:37:06]

Prune is fine, you don’t need to prune out.

+                    'of TARGET')

[Mark Mentovai, 2013/10/01 18:37:06]

Can you bump this over so that the ' lines up with the one above, to make it
seem less like a distinct argument? Maybe if you get rid of the “out” or reword
it a little bit you can make it concise enough that it doesn’t need to wrap at
all.

 
   options, build_files_arg = parser.parse_args(args)
   build_files = build_files_arg
@@ -506,7 +510,8 @@ def gyp_main(args):
               'build_files_arg': build_files_arg,
               'gyp_binary': sys.argv[0],
               'home_dot_gyp': home_dot_gyp,
-              'parallel': options.parallel}
+              'parallel': options.parallel,
+              'root_targets': options.root_targets}
 
     # Start with the default variables from the command line.
     [generator, flat_list, targets, data] = Load(build_files, format,